PANCHGANI: 110708

The visit to Panchgini has become annual ritual for us during this part of the year. It’s mainly due to non-tourist season & its climatic offering in july. This was the first time we started our drive late in the afternoon & planned to reach late night. We were apprehensive but ready to encounter new experience to the ghat climbing. The climb was rewarding as the panoramic view of Wai was like driving on star studded pretenious ground plane, while pouring cloud became background quintessential space, the only oscillating reality was few yard illuminated road through head light.

The usual destination was Hotel Gitanjali Room No. 25. The hotel is small building tucked away from main road. The hotel is surrounded by thick landscape of trees reducing any visible contact to outside. It has 12 rooms on all the three floors with small courtyard in the reception area. Its offering list do not have ambience in the list, nor does it have great any exotic facilities. The contrast of overpowering exponential reality vs. inner static ambience is at its paramount. If inner ambience serves to its worth value purpose than exponential reality negates the worthiness of being & brings to its neutrality. The ever changing climate constantly challenging the physical time, it may be irrelevant to one who unwilling to negotiate that space otherwise rest was truly surreal made silence unbearable. The static quality of stubborn inner & dynamic loftiness of coniferous landscape has purposeful existence if silence is sought for. Otherwise conspicuous inner yearning for consumption can be at universal constant masking the outer reality.

MONSOON MONUMENT

MONSOON MONUMENT
It has been 40 years of memory of monsoon in Santacruz lanes, its transformation in to new type of recreation in monsoon are still fresh though it is dated. This recreation is associated to school timings & high tide times; co-incidentally they were same 12.00 noon. The annual rainfall is 1000mm by whether beauraue, however we associate with number of time our street would get flooded. The magic number is four & if it’s less by any chance at any point then we assume that monsoon is not over.
The mass scale storm water channel work has been carried out in all the streets with strong assertion by all MLA’S. Earlier it was only our street would be flooded & now it’s all other streets equalling sharing the annual rain fall. The monumental acclamation of autonomous glory is slowly diminishing.
Out of all the mess, the only place where the phenomena have been constant is Milan Subway. The quality of transformation of this subway is parallel to any other public place within the city. Around the year there are no signs of any political wing or MLA’s, I presume it’s the only place where boundary of ward or any kind of territory would be disputed with no claim on it or it’s a place which everybody would want to disown it.
This place deserves to be a monsoon monument since it is strong point of reference across the city in the rain. It has temporary built bridge out of unimaginable recycled metal frames & sheets can only be next to recycling industry of ship breaking yard. This place commands the view of runway strip as amazing time pass for almost half of our countrymen, which might be more than the tourist would visit any historical place. This place also is offered human sacrifice during its flooding time along with animals. I don’t think so that any place in the world would have such unique situation. The permanently installed water pumps are almost like an art object in urban space, which could be enlarged at least five times so its present is felt from flight while taking of, or the metal bridge could be wrapped up along with array of nude micro pumps or two parallel wall of subway can have multi-level urinals. This could be an amazing marriage of temporary un acclaimed public space & art form.
This place has such potential that we have several places inspired from this celebrated subway. The status quo is due to unresolved elements of coordination from various public work departments which can only be compared with three countries unable to resolve the water distribution problem arising from common river channel.

matrix & metaphysics

"The relation of Self & context establishes structure of epistemology which builds relation & dialogue. The inevitable expression is in the confinements of coscience, ethics & moral principal. Further it opens up for critical thinnking of dialectic & philosophic in nature. The dilemma of this matrix preoblematises the manifestation"

" How to become a rare commodity or niche out your self among the array of visible things"?.... is that architecture or individual destined to be rare & nicheable....,,,, is there any ethics that can be discussed within the discourse or practice/ production of architecture.....

" Its is almost imperative that everything we do around is dubiously & unintelligently decadance of hindi cinema. How is that architecture can have autonomy of existance. The recent launch of architecture magazine is an attempt to singularuze, glorify individual attainment & cerebral audacity. Its thrives on unsolicited urbanity, attempting to redefine unimaginitave spa architecture/culture within de context s-politics."